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I've been reading about this bizarre syndrome called "Morgellons" for hours now.
It's insane!
Apparently, it's a pretty well-known phenomenon; ABC, People Magazine, and a number of other mainstream news sources have done stories on it, although their slant is, "Is this disease real, or are these people all crazy?".
Most of the mainstream articles strongly imply the latter.
I got interested in this because a coworker of mine, after reading an article about it, now claims to have it.
According to self-proclaimed sufferers, Morgellons is a disease, a sort of parasitic infection, where very small, nearly microscopic "worms"- or some kind of organic fibers- infest your body, course through your bloodstream, and pop into and out of your skin through your pores. It supposedly also encompasses a whole spectrum of other symptoms, most of them gruesome in the extreme.
Sufferers claim that they can see and feel the worms moving around under their skin. They also have unexplained wounds, sores, and rashes on their skin, which they claim are caused by the "worms".
Apparently, although they claim to live in constant agony, nobody will believe them. While many self-proclaimed Morgellons sufferers have collected samples of the "worms" or fibers, scientists who have analyzed them claim they are merely cloth fibers, fibers off of clothing that have stuck in scabs and become embedded. They do not believe the sufferers that these "worms" are animated and move around on their own (apparently, they're already dead by the time one manages to get them to a scientific research facility for analysis).
Some of these people are really messed-up looking in the pictures; they've picked at their skin so much that it is severely infected, and some of them seem to have permanently disfigured themselves.
So, the mainstream medical community denies that the condition is a physical one; they say it's a psychological disorder. They believe the wounds on sufferers' bodies are self-inflicted, and that the sensation of bugs or worms crawling on or under one's skin is psychosomatic, and that the reports by sufferers of having seen these "worms" jumping around, popping in and out of their skin, dancing the hoochy-kootch, and whatnot, are actually hallucinations.
That's where the "conspiracy" part comes in.
Sufferers have gathered on blogs, forums, and websites. They've traded stories and theories. The rumors and speculations, fueled by hysteria, have snowballed, growing to monstrous proportions.
Apparently, many believe it's a government plot.
The mainstream medical community, the government, and the Center for Disease Control are all involved in a massive conspiracy to cover up the reality of Morgellons. :ninja:
There's no real consensus on why.
Some say it's a genetically-engineered disease, which either got loose from a government lab by mistake, or else was intentionally disseminated by the government upon an unsuspecting populace.
Some say it's actually caused by their clothing; cotton is infested with these microscopic worms, they believe, and when you put on cotton clothes, the worms burrow into your skin.
Others say it's a result of some environmental contaminant, a pesticide, perhaps related somehow to chem-trails left by airplanes.
Some say it's the result of a biological agent covertly spread by terrorists, perhaps dumped into the water supply.
Some say aliens are involved.
Some say it's connected to Lyme Disease, Autism, and another clinically-undiagnosable mystery syndrome, Fibromyalgia.
One guy says he got it by cutting his finger on a rock while cleaning his aquarium full of rare tropical fish; the worms, he claims, came out of the fish and entered his body through the cut.
Some claim it's caused by immunizations; their children began suffering from it, they insist, after the government "forced" them to have their children immunized (which to me is a very frightening allegation; it scares me to imagine mentally ill parents picking holes in their children's skin because they imagine it is full of genetically-engineered mutant "worms").
Whatever it is, nobody will believe them; and so they sit at home picking their skin to shreds and posting on the internet about how much they wish they'd just die.
You should google the search term "Morgellons" to learn more about it. Sufferers call themselves "Morgies", and they have their own whole little underground culture, which seems to consist mostly of posting enormously magnified photos of their latest picked-off scabs (often embellished with tufts of fuzz or lint, which they claim are the "worms") and discussing their myriad and diverse symptoms in mind-numbingly gory and graphic detail.
This has got to be the most pathetic assemblage of tinfoil-hat wearers I've ever stumbled across. Two of the most prominent ones (the ones whose names are all over every Morgellons site on the internet) actually met on a Morgellons forum and got married. Now, presumably, their lives are no longer so dreary, since at least they've got company. They can now sit and pick their scabs together... or pick each other's, I suppose. :screwy
The weirdest thing about it is, there must be a strong psychosomatic component to it, because the more I read their repulsive descriptions of their symptoms and looked at their nasty, disgusting photos, the more my skin started to itch and feel like bugs were crawling on it. :crazy3:
Go check this craziness out: I dare you. :mrgreen:
Morgellons
(and if you have a really strong stomach, do a google image search for the term "Morgellons").
It's insane!
Apparently, it's a pretty well-known phenomenon; ABC, People Magazine, and a number of other mainstream news sources have done stories on it, although their slant is, "Is this disease real, or are these people all crazy?".
Most of the mainstream articles strongly imply the latter.
I got interested in this because a coworker of mine, after reading an article about it, now claims to have it.
According to self-proclaimed sufferers, Morgellons is a disease, a sort of parasitic infection, where very small, nearly microscopic "worms"- or some kind of organic fibers- infest your body, course through your bloodstream, and pop into and out of your skin through your pores. It supposedly also encompasses a whole spectrum of other symptoms, most of them gruesome in the extreme.
Sufferers claim that they can see and feel the worms moving around under their skin. They also have unexplained wounds, sores, and rashes on their skin, which they claim are caused by the "worms".
Apparently, although they claim to live in constant agony, nobody will believe them. While many self-proclaimed Morgellons sufferers have collected samples of the "worms" or fibers, scientists who have analyzed them claim they are merely cloth fibers, fibers off of clothing that have stuck in scabs and become embedded. They do not believe the sufferers that these "worms" are animated and move around on their own (apparently, they're already dead by the time one manages to get them to a scientific research facility for analysis).
Some of these people are really messed-up looking in the pictures; they've picked at their skin so much that it is severely infected, and some of them seem to have permanently disfigured themselves.
So, the mainstream medical community denies that the condition is a physical one; they say it's a psychological disorder. They believe the wounds on sufferers' bodies are self-inflicted, and that the sensation of bugs or worms crawling on or under one's skin is psychosomatic, and that the reports by sufferers of having seen these "worms" jumping around, popping in and out of their skin, dancing the hoochy-kootch, and whatnot, are actually hallucinations.
That's where the "conspiracy" part comes in.
Sufferers have gathered on blogs, forums, and websites. They've traded stories and theories. The rumors and speculations, fueled by hysteria, have snowballed, growing to monstrous proportions.
Apparently, many believe it's a government plot.
The mainstream medical community, the government, and the Center for Disease Control are all involved in a massive conspiracy to cover up the reality of Morgellons. :ninja:
There's no real consensus on why.
Some say it's a genetically-engineered disease, which either got loose from a government lab by mistake, or else was intentionally disseminated by the government upon an unsuspecting populace.
Some say it's actually caused by their clothing; cotton is infested with these microscopic worms, they believe, and when you put on cotton clothes, the worms burrow into your skin.
Others say it's a result of some environmental contaminant, a pesticide, perhaps related somehow to chem-trails left by airplanes.
Some say it's the result of a biological agent covertly spread by terrorists, perhaps dumped into the water supply.
Some say aliens are involved.
Some say it's connected to Lyme Disease, Autism, and another clinically-undiagnosable mystery syndrome, Fibromyalgia.
One guy says he got it by cutting his finger on a rock while cleaning his aquarium full of rare tropical fish; the worms, he claims, came out of the fish and entered his body through the cut.
Some claim it's caused by immunizations; their children began suffering from it, they insist, after the government "forced" them to have their children immunized (which to me is a very frightening allegation; it scares me to imagine mentally ill parents picking holes in their children's skin because they imagine it is full of genetically-engineered mutant "worms").
Whatever it is, nobody will believe them; and so they sit at home picking their skin to shreds and posting on the internet about how much they wish they'd just die.
You should google the search term "Morgellons" to learn more about it. Sufferers call themselves "Morgies", and they have their own whole little underground culture, which seems to consist mostly of posting enormously magnified photos of their latest picked-off scabs (often embellished with tufts of fuzz or lint, which they claim are the "worms") and discussing their myriad and diverse symptoms in mind-numbingly gory and graphic detail.
This has got to be the most pathetic assemblage of tinfoil-hat wearers I've ever stumbled across. Two of the most prominent ones (the ones whose names are all over every Morgellons site on the internet) actually met on a Morgellons forum and got married. Now, presumably, their lives are no longer so dreary, since at least they've got company. They can now sit and pick their scabs together... or pick each other's, I suppose. :screwy
The weirdest thing about it is, there must be a strong psychosomatic component to it, because the more I read their repulsive descriptions of their symptoms and looked at their nasty, disgusting photos, the more my skin started to itch and feel like bugs were crawling on it. :crazy3:
Go check this craziness out: I dare you. :mrgreen:
Morgellons
(and if you have a really strong stomach, do a google image search for the term "Morgellons").
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